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The political will for ideas like a major new reservoir is greater than it will ever be for legislation for water efficiency and SUDS as it seems politicians are obsessed with large scale projects, with a big budget, that can be shown on TV as demonstrably taking action. Showing an urban drainage system is not nearly as glamorous as showing a big hole in the ground full of water (never mind the empty rivers and choked ponds).

How do you sex up a story about toilet hippos?
What's so great about rainwater capture and re-use, it's just not tele-genic.
Banning sprinklers? You've got to be kidding, political suicide!
A new reservoir on the otherhand - now we know that someone is doing something!

Unless politicians are prepared to act from conviction rather than political expediency, we will carry on getting these cock-eyed solutions that actually solve nothing, while at the same time exacerbating other problems.

It's all far too depressing for a Friday night.